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Post Match Discussion - Round 5


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I thought last week’s capitulation was out of character and an aberration. Guess not. 

So I think the game plan is have 3 forwards and 10 defenders. Try to win ball, handball around to raise everyone’s Supercoach rankings. If ball is not yet turned over, find Gawn on the boundary, bomb to him. Hope he marks. If he marks, make no attempt to run back, just let him kick it to whichever poor bastard is playing at FF with 3 defenders on him. Ball comes in, ball rebounds out. Opposition score. 

Have I nailed it?

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One of the problems with our NQR players is each is good at just one thing.

Harmes tackles. ANB runs. Hunt is fast. Stretch spreads. Tyson can get a clearance.

But outside of these things they're good at, they're not good at anything else.

So people will inevitably say the FD won't drop Harmes because he laid 9 tackles, but he is useless in all other aspects of the game. ANB breaks running records but can't make a good decision. Stretch gets into the right spots but then fumbles every time he goes near it.

Compare these players to someone like Higgins. Higgins has Hunt's pace, but also Harmes' tackles, Garlett's goal-kicking nous, etc. 

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I am so peed off at this club it’s not funny.

why the hell cant we score all of a sudden?

why do we leak so many goals to the opponent every game?

why can’t we play out a whole game?

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9 minutes ago, ignition. said:

The biggest issue is the game plan!

I feel like a broken record saying it.

I find it hard to judge the players when clearly they've been told to run together in a wave.

Yes, they seem to win a lot of the contest. But everything is rushed. They bang it on the boot inside 50, they handball to a teammate in danger. Then when it's lost the opposition gets out far too easily because they were all in or around that wave. It is just so incredibly inefficient. The inefficiency is the cause of the fade outs. If it was one of two game plans fine, I wouldn't see an issue running with it for half a quartet at a time. But it's not. There no plan B. There's no spread. There's no hitting up the short chip or mid-range kicks. In fact they're very little kicking to a lead up man (because there was no spread in the first place).

Yes we got out classed, but it was only because of a [censored] poor game plan. I'm sick of it. The coaching staff need to improve "their" game first and foremost!

The first clearance of the game basically summed us up.

Extra man at the back of the square (Hunt) runs through and kicks the ball instead of handballing.

Surprise, surprise, hits the extra Richmond player on the chest. 

We are dumb and don't function well as a team.

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13 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

It was a 14 point margin 10 early in the fourth quarter. We ran out of puff one down on the bench and the best side in the comp got a run of goals on, but the issue isn't the last 15 minutes.

The issue is that we have now played 5 straight games with the same problems each week.

For the first 16 minutes of the third quarter, Richmond had one possession in their forward half. One. Inside 50s were 12-1. But we'd only kicked 2 goals when we should have kicked 5. We lifted our effort for those 16 minutes, we dominated general play, but we continue to stuff it up inside 50.

Same problem in Q1 - the first 10 minutes was predominantly played in our forward half but we kicked 1.6 or something and didn't put any scoreboard pressure on.

A few things are apparent. The first is that opposition sides know how to set up against us and it's the same every week - an extra defender behind the play. I'm embarrassed that we can't work out what to do to get around this tactic. Literally every side has used this against us to their advantage.

What is also apparent is we have far too many NQR players who aren't good enough: ANB, Wagner, Stretch, Harmes, Vince, Hunt, Tyson. Our reliance on NQR players leads to too many going up and none staying down, momentum-killing turnovers, selfishness creeping into the better players (Gawn a prime example), wasted inside 50s.

Too much is being left to too few. Oliver and Petracca are expected to be leading the club but they have no support. Gawn is dominating the ruck but we can't buy a clearance. 

There were positives: the back 6 was markedly better this week. Eventually the toll of our awful forward line/midfield was too much, but for much of the game our backline held its own. OMac and Lever are improving, Lever's best game. Hibberd and Jetta also played much better.

But if the coaches can't work out how to get the side to score when the opposition drops an extra behind the ball, we're not going to get close to the finals. It's simply not good enough.

The best post I have read in a long time.

 

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Ok.  I have taken a few moments to calm down (the smug Tigers whankers sitting behind me sent the old blood pressure through the roof...).

It was a full pressure game, Tigers played 4 quarters of it.  Under pressure, we fumbled, rushed, and had no tempo.  The first quarter we went helter skelter, and a little bit of poise could have seen us well in front.

We corrected our defense at 1/2 time, and ran a deeper ‘wall’ across half back.  This significantly improved our ability to rebound.

A huge issue is we love to play contested ball - but we are hopeless at scoring from stoppages in our 50, and leak too many from stoppages in the D50.  Seems like so much hard work ends up being wasted.

third quarter was a cracker.  Pressure ramped up, and both teams going hard.  We gave up a couple of easy goals and turned our efforts into nothing.

WE have a lot of issues.  3 goals in 5 quarters is pathetic.  We rely on halving the centre contest and winning the contested ball.  Apart from the third, we were shredded at clearances.  Max might win the taps, but when the tigers stream forward out fo the middle, it is a difficult game to win.

Weids gets a pass mark.  The list of those who do not is too long for me to bother.  The big problem is no one really put their hand up at Casey (except Pedo, but do we need another tall?)

The problem is not the game plan, or the personnel.  It is the game plan using this group of personnel.  Something has to give with either of these variables.  We really need big wins over the next 4 to get our season back on track.

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Jayden Hunt is a worry & looks nothing like the player he was last year. Goodwin put the white flag up when he picked Stretch ahead of Hannan, didn't drop Harmes (putrid 2 weeks in a row) & left an in form tall in Pedo out of the team.

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1 minute ago, Jaded said:

I thought last week’s capitulation was out of character and an aberration. Guess not. 

So I think the game plan is have 3 forwards and 10 defenders. Try to win ball, handball around to raise everyone’s Supercoach rankings. If ball is not yet turned over, find Gawn on the boundary, bomb to him. Hope he marks. If he marks, make no attempt to run back, just let him kick it to whichever poor bastard is playing at FF with 3 defenders on him. Ball comes in, ball rebounds out. Opposition score. 

Have I nailed it?

That's it isn't it. Nail on the head. It's a putrid game plan. You may also wish to add Max's hitout plan to smash the ball blindly into space for the opposition and at Centre bounces he taps to the outnumbered side of the contest. It's genius stuff. 

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2 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

Harmes tackles. ANB runs. Hunt is fast. Stretch spreads. Tyson can get a clearance.

Agree on all that, though I'd take Tyson's "can get a clearance". Not to be scoffed at.

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Richmond at the MCG are the fittest, fastest and easily best team in the comp.

I watched Geelong, Adelaide and GWS all play the same game we did against the Tigers last year in the finals.

Want to spread it more against the Tigers pressure and work rate, good luck.

Reacting to slippery conditions and a bad game where we over possessed the ball last week we were always going to play pretty safe but at least we had the ball moving faster.

The 3rd quarter (and parts of the first and 2nd) showed it's not actually a cardinal sin to go long down the line if you have the talls and smalls in the right spot.

Our hands aren't slick enough around the contest and we don't have the class on the outside to nail the kick that opens up the play. Besides that we need to work on our team work with men up and down but the side has and will keep changing and it can't all be fixed over night.

Tonight was far better than the Hawthorn game obviously and not out of line with our first 3 weeks. Heck it might even have been better.

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Richmond
5
16
137.9
4
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0
517
375
W
L
W
W
W
 
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West Coast Eagles
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GWS Giants
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North Melbourne
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321
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Geelong Cats
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Hawthorn
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Adelaide Crows
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Port Adelaide
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Sydney Swans
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Fremantle
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Gold Coast Suns
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Collingwood
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Essendon
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Carlton
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14th is about what we deserve. Our percentage also starting to look ugly.
What the hell has happened to our team?
 
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The only positive that can take out of our current situation atm is that we’re in almost exactly the same position as we were this time last year 2 -3  , in fact only difference is that we’ve finally beaten norf 

how we go against Essendrug on Sunday will tell us a lot  , the next 4 rounds are all very gettable games , hopefully coinciding with the return of Viney and TMac 

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2 minutes ago, ding said:
1
 
 
Richmond
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16
137.9
4
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0
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375
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L
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West Coast Eagles
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GWS Giants
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14
131.7
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North Melbourne
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Geelong Cats
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Hawthorn
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Adelaide Crows
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14th is about what we deserve. Our percentage also starting to look ugly.
What the hell has happened to our team?
 

Have really shot ourselves in the foot.

Have a very tough fixture to end the season and needed to get off to a flyer.

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6 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

One of the problems with our NQR players is each is good at just one thing.

Harmes tackles. ANB runs. Hunt is fast. Stretch spreads. Tyson can get a clearance.

But outside of these things they're good at, they're not good at anything else.

So people will inevitably say the FD won't drop Harmes because he laid 9 tackles, but he is useless in all other aspects of the game. ANB breaks running records but can't make a good decision. Stretch gets into the right spots but then fumbles every time he goes near it.

Compare these players to someone like Higgins. Higgins has Hunt's pace, but also Harmes' tackles, Garlett's goal-kicking nous, etc. 

harmes missed a large amount of tackles tonight.. Higgins isn't fast, he's just  good old fashioned small forward nothing too fancy, with no glaring  deficiencies

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6 minutes ago, buck_nekkid said:

Ok.  I have taken a few moments to calm down (the smug Tigers whankers sitting behind me sent the old blood pressure through the roof...).

It was a full pressure game, Tigers played 4 quarters of it.  Under pressure, we fumbled, rushed, and had no tempo.  The first quarter we went helter skelter, and a little bit of poise could have seen us well in front.

We corrected our defense at 1/2 time, and ran a deeper ‘wall’ across half back.  This significantly improved our ability to rebound.

A huge issue is we love to play contested ball - but we are hopeless at scoring from stoppages in our 50, and leak too many from stoppages in the D50.  Seems like so much hard work ends up being wasted.

third quarter was a cracker.  Pressure ramped up, and both teams going hard.  We gave up a couple of easy goals and turned our efforts into nothing.

WE have a lot of issues.  3 goals in 5 quarters is pathetic.  We rely on halving the centre contest and winning the contested ball.  Apart from the third, we were shredded at clearances.  Max might win the taps, but when the tigers stream forward out fo the middle, it is a difficult game to win.

Weids gets a pass mark.  The list of those who do not is too long for me to bother.  The big problem is no one really put their hand up at Casey (except Pedo, but do we need another tall?)

The problem is not the game plan, or the personnel.  It is the game plan using this group of personnel.  Something has to give with either of these variables.  We really need big wins over the next 4 to get our season back on track.

Completely disagree. The problem is the game plan and not the players. We were one of the highest scoring sides last year. What has happened?  Goodwin thought he had to evolve but he didn't. 

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Just now, Delusional demon 82 said:

The only positive that can take out of our current situation atm is that we’re in almost exactly the same position as we were this time last year 2 -3  , in fact only difference is that we’ve finally beaten norf 

how we go against Essendrug on Sunday will tell us a lot  , the next 4 rounds are all very gettable games , hopefully coinciding with the return of Viney and TMac 

If we win the next 4, I’ll be shocked, amazed and delighted. 

With this game plan and a side full of plodders who can’t kick, handball or run fast, we are going to be lucky to beat St Kilda and Carlton who are both due for a win. 

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22 minutes ago, Wiseblood said:

I think the structure of our side is almost right.  We miss Viney and T Mac, and our some of our fringe players are well down on confidence, but I like how we set up tonight.  Weideman straightened us up, did some good things and wasn't disgraced when he pinch hitted in the ruck either.  Lever played his best game for the club and linked up well with O Mac, while Jetta and Hibberd looked much better as well.

Add in two of our leaders and get our confidence back up and we're back in the season.  However, that's going to take some tweaking of the game plan and some hard work over the next few rounds for that to happen.

What it showed me tonight is it's not right & not likely to be right this season even with the addition of Viney & T Mac.

We have too many one paced players and no real outside run, carry and class. We have lot of grunt players who play there best as inside mids playing out of position.

This needs to be addressed in the off season with free agency & trades.

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2 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

Whilst I agree that the way we play is a problem, I don't think the problem tonight was defensive. For three quarters our press kept us in the game because of our effort.

The problem was we weren't scoring, so every time they scored it hurt more than it should have.

We should have been leading in the middle of the third, we'd been absolutely dominant. But because we don't convert momentum/dominance into scores, it all falls apart when the opposition gets on top (which will happen vs sides like Richmond, Hawthorn and Geelong).

Completely agree, but whenever they went inside 50 or there was a stoppage inside defensive 50, they looked like scoring and often did. 

But I was ropable in the first quarter, because I knew we'd lost the game by kicking 1.5. We simply didn't look like scoring in the second because we'd kicked so poorly in the first that it was as if we didn't believe we'd kick goals.

Scoreboard pressure is one of our main failures the last fortnight. We simply haven't converted our dominance into legitmate scoreboard pressure. This has a lot to do with our dysfunctional forward line, but also our inaccuracy. We're failing to do the basics right. It's interesting because historically, our accuracy has often won us games. But if ever there was a time we needed to go back to doing the basics properly it's now. We constantly fumbled again, missed gettable shots and defensively often had no one out the back of the packs playing the sweeper role. Like last week, we probably conceded 8 to 10 goals because we lacked the discipline of having a sweeper back, which if you look at Richmond's backline, they continually had.

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11 minutes ago, BrisbaneDemon said:

I had great hope for Tonight, I actually thought if we turned up we would win.

Our defensive structure is nonexistent at the moment, we’re playing such a high press that is too easily beaten, we need to throw some serious cash at a highly rated defensive coach, look what Leppa as some for the Tigers.

Also what has happened to all of dash and exciting football that we played last year, we’re so vanilla this year it’s not enjoyable watching us play, we kick long down the line to an out numbered person. We aren’t running two ways and we aren’t playing for each other.

i agree with a lot of people here that we’re not destined for finals, Gawn really needs to start sending it down the throats of our midfield, he hits it to space and the opposition grab it and off they go.

at round 5 I’m not enjoying watching us play, the bomb it long to a contest it Mark Neeld esk.  

The defence was not the problem for 3.5 quarters. The scoring was the problem. We got it into our 50 often enough but couldn’t capitalize on it because of poor skills, fumbling, bombing it in long, missing targets by foot and missing shots on goal. They stacked our forward fifty with lots of their players so this put pressure on our forwards and contributed to fumbling and getting caught with the ball when trying to play on and kick goals or pass to team mates, resulting in turnovers and coast to coast goals to them. There was also some poor decision-making e.g Tyson kicking backwards into their forward 50 and missing the target by a mile instead of going forward. Late in the last quarter when the game was already lost the defence leaked. But by then the momentum was all their way. It was too late, we’d missed our multiple opportunities to score.

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15 minutes ago, Wiseblood said:

I think the structure of our side is almost right.  We miss Viney and T Mac, and our some of our fringe players are well down on confidence, but I like how we set up tonight.  Weideman straightened us up, did some good things and wasn't disgraced when he pinch hitted in the ruck either.  Lever played his best game for the club and linked up well with O Mac, while Jetta and Hibberd looked much better as well.

Add in two of our leaders and get our confidence back up and we're back in the season.  However, that's going to take some tweaking of the game plan and some hard work over the next few rounds for that to happen.

While i agree we miss viney and t-mac and believe they will make a difference its the lost generation of players thats hurting us. Vince, Lewis and not so much jones but he shouldn't be relied on for this is what this club is missing. Players that should be in the same experience group as viney, t-mac, gawn and hibberd (jones should be getting pushed out to where vince/lewis are) that are just consistent and know what to do. Our list is badly balanced with  lewis and vince not being pushed out because of this. Theres too much for to do for these few and we rely on younger players and role players to do more than their capabilities.

12 minutes ago, Wiseblood said:

Can we fit Hogan, T Mac and Weideman in the same side?  Or are we too top heavy, even factoring in Hogan playing further up the ground?

Weids help in the ruck was good. Provided more than pedo. I think him and t mac taking turns to spell gawn will work. Hogan is very mobile and t mac can be used as a marking link between the arcs a lot more while still leaving structure forward. Weids tackling and chasing has always been good. Id rather t mac replace harmes than weid.

11 minutes ago, Forest Demon said:

This isn't the the first time I've said this, but our game plan, and the type of players we have set the team up with isnt working.

We rarely have open options when we move the ball, as opposed to our opposition who seem to have a lottery of options.

Our "outside" players, half forward flankers etc, are guys like Harmes and ANB. Decent back up mids, but we need players in those roles to have more class.

Im not a huge Watts fan, but when we let him go, I said we better know what we are doing, as it leaves Salem as our only real top class reliable kick.

We have loaded up on contested types, but it ain't working,

Watts was in that age/experience group but couldnt be relied on. Perhaps salem needs a role change. While hes not the quickest either is gaff but he uses his skills well. We know salem goes in hard but wouldnt we be better off having it shovelled out to him with a fraction of a second more time?

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    When they locked up the rooms for summer at the end of last year’s football season, the rooms gathered cobwebs, the atmosphere became dense and the place developed a sleepy feel. They opened up the rooms to let Casey out to play on Sunday but the team was still hibernating and they missed the bulk of the opening quarter. By the time they worked out it was game on, their opponents from Box Hill had accumulated five goals and, if the game wasn’t over, it might as well have been. For a se

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    A FORK IN THE HAWK by George on the Outer

    For too long in the past, Demon fans became habitually sick and tired of watching the Hawks hand out thrashings to their side. But Melbourne’s empahtic 55-point win at the MCG on Saturday has truly put a fork in the Hawk and turned that history well and truly on its head. The Demons have now won nine of their last ten encounters with the other result, a draw.     And like a fork, it was the multi-pronged options that Melbourne had all across the ground.  It certainly helped that Hawthorn

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    PREGAME: Rd 03 vs Port Adelaide

    The Demons head on the road for the next 2 weeks as they travel to Adelaide to play Port on Saturday and then have a 5 Day break before facing the Crows in the Gather Round. With injuries to May and Lever who comes in and who goes out?

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    PODCAST: Rd 02 vs Hawthorn

    The Demonland Podcast will air LIVE on Monday, 25th March @ 8:30pm. Join George, Binman & I as we analyse the Demons victory at the MCG against the Hawks in the Round 02. You questions and comments are a huge part of our podcast so please post anything you want to ask or say below and we'll give you a shout out on the show. If you would like to leave us a voicemail please call 03 9016 3666 and don't worry no body answers so you don't have to talk to a human. Listen & Chat

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    VOTES: Rd 02 vs Hawthorn

    Last week Steven May took the lead in the Demonland Player of the Year Award from Jack Viney. Clayton Oliver & Max Gawn round out the Top 4. Your votes for the win/loss against/to the Hawks. 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

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    POSTGAME: Rd 02 vs Hawthorn

    The Demons cruised to an easy 55 point win over the Hawks at the MCG but but paid a heavy toll on the injury front with Steven May & Jake Lever possibly sidelined for a number of weeks.

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    GAMEDAY: Rd 02 vs Hawthorn

    It's Game Day and after mixed results in the first two weeks of the season the Demons have the opportunity to capitalise on their good form last week when they take on the Hawks at the MCG today.

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    DEPTH CHARGE by Whispering Jack

    The jubilation on the coach’s face as he danced a celebratory jig by the playing bench after the final siren sounded to record his team’s four-point victory over the Demons when the teams last met, said it all ... READ MORE

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    HIBERNATING by KC from Casey

    When they locked up the rooms for summer at the end of last year’s football season, the rooms gathered cobwebs, the atmosphere became dense and the place developed a sleepy feel. They opened up the rooms to let Casey out to play on Sunday but the team was still hibernating and they missed the bulk of the opening quarter ... READ MORE

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    PREGAME: Rd 03 vs Port Adelaide

    The Demons head out on the road for the next 2 weeks as they travel to Adelaide to play Port on Saturday and then have a 5 Day break before facing the Crows in Gather Round. With injuries to May and Lever who comes in and who goes out? ...READ MORE

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    A FORK IN THE HAWK by George on the Outer

    For too long in the past, Demon fans became habitually sick and tired of watching the Hawks hand out thrashings to their side. But Melbourne’s empahtic 55-point win at the MCG on Saturday has truly put a fork in the Hawk and turned that history well and truly on its head ... READ MORE

    Demonland | March 23

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    POSTGAME: Rd 02 vs Hawthorn

    The Demons cruised to an easy 55 point win over the Hawks at the MCG but but paid a heavy toll on the injury front with Steven May & Jake Lever possibly sidelined for a number of weeks ...READ MORE

    Demonland | March 23

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    VOTES: Rd 02 vs Hawthorn

    Last week Steven May took the lead in the Demonland Player of the Year Award from Jack Viney. Clayton Oliver & Max Gawn round out the Top 4. Your votes for the win/loss against/to the Hawks. 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 ...READ MORE

    Demonland | March 23

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    GAMEDAY: Round 02 vs Hawthorn

    It's Game Day and after mixed results in the first two weeks of the season the Demons have the opportunity to capitalise on their good form last week when they take on the Hawks at the MCG today ... READ MORE

    Demonland | March 23

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    Demonland Trackwatcher Kev Martin and I attended the Captain's Run at Gosch's Paddock on this lovely sunny morning to bring you the following observations from the training session ... READ MORE

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    Demonland Trackwatchers Kev Martin and Dee Zephyr wandered down to Gosch's Paddock on Saturday morning to bring you their observations from the Captain's Run in the lead up to Sunday's Round One match against the Bulldogs ... READ MORE

    Demonland | March 16

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    Angus Brayshaw Retires

    After 167 games including the drought breaking Premiership Angus Brayshaw has made the heart breaking decision to medically retire from football as a result of a series of serious head knocks over his nearly decade of footy. We wish Gus all the best and he'll always be a hero at Demonland ... READ MORE

    Demonland | February 22

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    Demonland | December 14

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    I interview the Melbourne Football Club's National Recruitment Manager Jason Taylor to have a chat about our Trade and Draft period, our newest recruits, our recent recruits who have yet to debut as well as those father son prospects on the horizon ... LISTEN

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